Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech, Aequitas Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

Quantitative Analysis

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<li>We analyze the weekly Shanghai/Shenzhen northbound Connect flows with our data engine for holding position as of December 16th.</li>
<li>We estimate the weekly inflows to be US$101.5 million, led by financials, consumer staples, communication services sectors, and offset by industrials, materials.</li>
<li>We highlight flows for China Merchants Bank, Shanghai Intl Airport, Tongwei.</li>
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We analyze the weekly Shanghai/Shenzhen northbound Connect flows with our data engine for holding position as of December 16th.
We estimate the weekly inflows to be US$101.5 million, led by financials, consumer staples, communication services sectors, and offset by industrials, materials.
We highlight flows for China Merchants Bank, Shanghai Intl Airport, Tongwei.


Northbound Flows (Dec 16th): CMB, Shanghai Intl Airport, Tongwei

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

Index Rebalance

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<li>There are 5 changes for the SSE50 Index that will be implemented at the close on 9 December. Passive selling on a few deletions is pretty large.</li>
<li>We estimate a one-way turnover of 4.07% at the December rebalance leading to a one-way trade of CNY 3.36bn. Index arb activity could add to the impact on the stocks.</li>
<li>The adds have dropped over the last few months while the deletes have moved higher. There could be a reversion of that trend till implementation of the changes.</li>
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There are 5 changes for the SSE50 Index that will be implemented at the close on 9 December. Passive selling on a few deletions is pretty large.
We estimate a one-way turnover of 4.07% at the December rebalance leading to a one-way trade of CNY 3.36bn. Index arb activity could add to the impact on the stocks.
The adds have dropped over the last few months while the deletes have moved higher. There could be a reversion of that trend till implementation of the changes.


SSE50 Index Rebalance: In Line with Forecasts; Trades Performing Well

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<li>The review period nearly complete, we see 7 potential adds and 9 potential deletes at the December rebalance. However, there can be a maximum of 5 changes at a rebalance.</li>
<li>We estimate a one-way turnover of 4.28% at the December rebalance leading to a one-way trade of CNY 3.42bn. Index arb activity could add to the impact on the stocks.</li>
<li>The potential adds have dropped over the last month while the potential deletes have moved higher over the last couple of weeks.</li>
</ul>


The review period nearly complete, we see 7 potential adds and 9 potential deletes at the December rebalance. However, there can be a maximum of 5 changes at a rebalance.
We estimate a one-way turnover of 4.28% at the December rebalance leading to a one-way trade of CNY 3.42bn. Index arb activity could add to the impact on the stocks.
The potential adds have dropped over the last month while the potential deletes have moved higher over the last couple of weeks.


SSE50 Index Rebalance Preview: Sector Shift as IT and Financials Drop

HK/China Equity Long-Short

Osbert Tang, CFA

Equity Bottom-Up

China Energy Engineering / Equity Bottom-Up

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/china-energy-engineering-group" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:21017:1" rel="noopener">China Energy Engineering (3996 HK)</a> witnessed a good acceleration in quarterly new contracts in this year. We estimate current backlog equals to 6.4x its FY21 revenue.</li>
<li>It is well geared towards China's new energy development, as reflected by a 108.3% YoY surge in new energy contracts. Its pumped storage new contract value leaped 144x in 1H22.</li>
<li>The spin-off of Gezhouba Explosive in the A-share market is progressing well with approval from shareholders in Sep. The stock's 4.1x PER and 0.33x P/B look undemanding.</li>
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China Energy Engineering (3996 HK) witnessed a good acceleration in quarterly new contracts in this year. We estimate current backlog equals to 6.4x its FY21 revenue.
It is well geared towards China's new energy development, as reflected by a 108.3% YoY surge in new energy contracts. Its pumped storage new contract value leaped 144x in 1H22.
The spin-off of Gezhouba Explosive in the A-share market is progressing well with approval from shareholders in Sep. The stock's 4.1x PER and 0.33x P/B look undemanding.


Energy China (3996 HK): Positive Developments in All Fronts

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<li>Over 80% of the way through the review period for the December rebalance, we see 7 stocks in inclusion/exclusion zone. However, there can be a maximum of 5 changes.</li>
<li>We estimate a one-way turnover of 3.9% at the December rebalance leading to a one-way trade of CNY 2.85bn.</li>
<li>The potential adds have outperformed the potential deletes and the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/shanghai-stock-exchange-sse-50-a-share-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31073:1" rel="noopener">SSE50 Index (SSE50 INDEX)</a> by a wide margin over the last few months.</li>
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Over 80% of the way through the review period for the December rebalance, we see 7 stocks in inclusion/exclusion zone. However, there can be a maximum of 5 changes.
We estimate a one-way turnover of 3.9% at the December rebalance leading to a one-way trade of CNY 2.85bn.
The potential adds have outperformed the potential deletes and the SSE50 Index (SSE50 INDEX) by a wide margin over the last few months.


SSE50 Index Rebalance Preview: Sector Rotation To Continue

China

Power Construction Corporation of China, Ltd provides electric utility line construction services. The Company develops and constructs hydropower engineering, water works engineering, thermal power engineering, new energy engineering, and other projects. Power Construction China also operates property development.

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Northbound Flows (Dec 16th): CMB, Shanghai Intl Airport, Tongwei

We analyzed the Shanghai/Shenzhen Connect Scheme for last week and highlight flows for CMB, Shanghai Intl Airport, Tongwei.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

SSE50 Index Rebalance: In Line with Forecasts; Trades Performing Well

There are 5 changes for the index in Dec - all in line with forecasts. There is a big sector skew. Trades have been performing well. Pre...

Brian Freitas

SSE50 Index Rebalance Preview: Sector Shift as IT and Financials Drop

We forecast 5 changes in December as Energy, Industrials and Materials weights increase and IT and Financials drop. One-way turnover will be over...

Brian Freitas

Energy China (3996 HK): Positive Developments in All Fronts

Energy China saw a 48.4% surge in new contract signed in 3Q22, making its backlog equal to an estimated 6.4x of FY21 revenue. Spin-off of Gezhouba...

Osbert Tang, CFA

SSE50 Index Rebalance Preview: Sector Rotation To Continue

We forecast 5 changes for the SSE50 Index in December. There are a few names that are close to add/delete zone and price/volume changes can lead to...

Brian Freitas

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